TY - JFULL AU - P. Chockalingam and C. K. Kok and T. R. Vijayaram PY - 2013/5/ TI - Surface Roughness Prediction Model for Grinding of Composite Laminate Using Factorial Design T2 - International Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering SP - 730 EP - 735 VL - 7 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9997095 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 76, 2013 N2 - Glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) laminates have been widely used because of their unique mechanical and physical properties such as high specific strength, stiffness and corrosive resistance. Accordingly, the demand for precise grinding of composites has been increasing enormously. Grinding is the one of the obligatory methods for fabricating products with composite materials and it is usually the final operation in the assembly of structural laminates. In this experimental study, an attempt has been made to develop an empirical model to predict the surface roughness of ground GFRP composite laminate with respect to the influencing grinding parameters by factorial design approach of design of experiments (DOE). The significance of grinding parameters and their three factor interaction effects on grinding of GFRP composite have been analyzed in detail. An empirical equation has been developed to attain minimum surface roughness in GFRP laminate grinding. ER -